[train whistle]

- Ella Dunbar: I was attached very much to the railroad because it seemed to be a connection to the outside world. If I could ever be down there in the evening
and look at that dining car, oh, I thought, "Wouldn't that be a luxury?"
My thrill was to hear that conductor after he threw his step up.
- Conductor: All aboard!
- Ella: And while they were doing all this, the engine was filling with water from the big water tank. We had a group of boys. Could they ever make a good barbershop chorus. And they would climb up and sit on the edge of that water tank, serenading.
The whole town could hear 'em	at night. So that's a memory that you would never get anywhere else because the town would be quiet. It was... Everybody listened for them.
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